, 1887-11-01
WRECKED ON THE LAKES
Total Loss of the Propeller
Vernon.
Over Thirty Persons Perish in
the Storm
A Chicago Pastors Plea for
Anarchy.
A Terrible Wreck,

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 30.-The steamship
Superior arrived at this port at $50 last
evening and brought the first news of the
total wreck of a large passenger propeller
off Manitowoc, Wis. That the wreck is
that of the propeller Vernon of the North
ern Michigan line, Is established almost
beyond a doubt. She was due here to
day, and from a description of the trag-
ments which were seen by the crew of the
Superior her owners here consider her
identity fully established. She had on
board a crew of twenty-slx, besides some
passengers, the exact number not being
known, and it is supposed that all hands
persisted.
Capt. Moran, Of the Superior, saw three
or four RATS with men clinging to them
and also a small boat containing a woman
and three men. Although he made
efforts to rescue them the high sea pre-
vented the rendering of any assistance,
the Superior being herself disabled and
requiring the crews best efforts. 1t was
about 10 O'Clock in the morning when the
first signs of the wreck in the shape of
floating cargo and furniture were seen.
About an hour after some RATS were
sighted, on which some occupants were
almost exhausted, while others signalled
the Superior.
The Vernon was owned by A. Booth,
of Chicago, and was valued at $75, 900.
She was | year old and insured for $37,-
kinaw and picked up freight at ports
which she touched, carrying it at the risk
of her owners.
Capt. Williams, of the schooner Joseph
Paige, arrived last night at 9 o'clock and
and reported seeing wreckage about six
miles east OF Two Rivers Point 1t was
evidently the wreckage of a passenger
vessel that he saw. One of the crew saw
a corpse and a piece of a pilot house with
a mar on it, but when next seen the sea
was RAINING so high it lifted the Joseph
Paige's boat from the davitts. 1t was
impossible to get near enough to pick him
up.
The captain of the life saving crew at
Two Rivers, Wis, describes the storm as
the worst ever seen by him on the lake,
the waves rising to a height of thirty or
forty feet. The first information received
by him was from this morning 5 papers.
Although the wreck is supposed to have
taken place within seven miles of Two
Rivers, it is his impression that no one
has survived the wreck.
1t was bitterly cold on the lake. he
said, and a person could not have stood
the exposure over night. The spray
dashing over the men clinging to the
wreckage must have frozen as it fell and
completely incased the unfortunates, if,
indeed, they held on long enough to per
nit such a thing. MY impression is
that they are all at the bottom of the
lake"
Capt. Hawkins, of the schooner Will
liam Howe, arriving in Milwaukee this
morning, reports passing three dead bodies
on Saturday afternoon about six miles
southwest Of Manitowoc. One body was
that of a woman with long black hair.
She had a life-preserver on. The other
two bodies were those of men. None of
the other vessels arriving here Yesterday
saw any wreckage or bodies, the most of
them having been too far out in the lake.
From dispatches sent out by the Senti-
mel to its correspondents the following
three names of passengers have been Sc
cured, though it cannot be positively as
serted that the persons named were
aboard. Its Mackinaw correspondent
gives the following two persons who are
supposed to have been on board: Miss
Kate Gallagher, of Mackinaw Island, and
Miss Sallie Durkin, OF Chicago, a cousin
of Miss Gallagher. Both were on their
way to Chicago.
From ChebOYgan the nance OF g. Baum
geaf, of Chicago, is reported as having
taken passage on the Inflated steamer.
So far these are the only names obtain
able of the passengers, as there appears to
have been no list kept.